Will Richardson says in an interview with educational week teacher pd\n\nWhat I mean is that too few teachers have a visible presence on the Web. The primary reason this matters is that the kids in our classrooms are going to be Googled&amp;#x2014;they&apos;re going to be searched for on the Web&amp;#x2014;over and over again. That&apos;s just the reality of their lives, right? So they need models. They need to have adults who know what it means to have a strong and appropriate search portfolio&amp;#x2014;I call it the &amp;#x201C;G-portfolio.&amp;#x201D; But right now&amp;#x2014;and this is my ongoing refrain&amp;#x2014;there&amp;#x2019;s no one teaching them how to learn and share with these technologies. There&apos;s no one teaching them about the nuances involved in creating a positive online footprint. It&apos;s all about what not to do instead of what they should be doing.\nThe second thing is that, if you want to be part of an extended learning network or community, you have to be findable. And you have to participate in some way. The people I learn from on a day-to-day basis are Googleable. They&amp;#x2019;re findable, they have a presence, they&amp;#x2019;re participating, they&amp;#x2019;re transparent. That&amp;#x2019;s what makes them a part of my learning network. If you&amp;#x2019;re not out there&amp;#x2014;if you&amp;#x2019;re not transparent or findable in that way&amp;#x2014;I can&amp;#x2019;t learn with you.\n

In addition...David Weinberger&amp;#xA0;writes, \nAs knowledge becomes networked, the smartest person in the room isn&amp;#x2019;t the person standing at the front lecturing us, and isn&amp;#x2019;t the collective wisdom of those in the room. The smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that joins the people and ideas in the room, and connects to those outside of it. It&amp;#x2019;s not that the network is becoming a conscious super-brain. Rather, knowledge is becoming inextricable from&amp;#x2014;literally unthinkable without&amp;#x2014;the network that enables it. Our task is to learn how to build smart rooms&amp;#x2014;that is, how to build networks that make us smarter, especially since, when done badly, networks can make us distressingly stupider.\n

Twitter is not about meaningless 140 character sound bytes. The reality is that it&amp;#x2019;s all about the conversation. Just as in real life there can be meaningless or meaningful conversations. It&amp;#x2019;s all a matter of who you choose to connect with. The beauty of the 140 character limit is that is helps prevent folks from dominating the conversation and promotes a give and take dialogue. \n

Twitter Vocab\n

When you &amp;#x201C;follow&amp;#x201D; someone you can view their tweets\n\nWhen someone &amp;#x201C;follows&amp;#x201D; you they can see all of your tweets\n

Tweet = A tweet is a post or status update on Twitter.\n\nRetweet = A retweet repeats a message - including the attached link.\n

Direct Message = like an email...only that person you DM can see message. Must use &amp;#x201C;DM.&amp;#x201D;\n\nReply = reply like you would in an email or tweet.\n

Hashtags = themes or topics Using a Twitter #Hashtag within your tweets broadcasts your tweets to a wider audience, outside of your existing followers.&amp;#xA0; This essentially lets other Twitter Users, with shared interests, know that you&apos;re out there and makes it easier for them to join in.&amp;#xA0;&amp;#xA0;\n\nMost importantly though, it allows you to participate in discussions on a larger scale, outside of your existing network and this allows you to network more effectively.\n\nBy knowing how to use popular&amp;#xA0; hashtags in your own tweets and searches you will be able to: share content, learn about new resources and keep up-to-date on real issues/challenges affecting the education community.\n\nChats = a scheduled time which tweeps discuss a common theme and use a common #, can participate live or check in later w/ archives\n

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1. Sign Up = username, shorter the better\n2. Fill out profile = make it interesting, link for your blog, add a picture\n3. Privacy settings = allow everyone to see your tweets OR only let people you have approved see and follow you\n

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Resources to use Twitter in the classroom.\n

Lurk and see who is talking about topics which interest you\nCheck out chats\nCheck follow lists of others\n